Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Category: week 5
New poem & video: Sina Queyras’ poem-response to Plath
Sina Queyras wrote her response to Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and it is called “I Am No Lady, Lazarus.” The ModPo team traveled to Montreal in October 2018, and met Sina Queryas at Concordia...
Talking about form becomes a crucial part of any discussion of “content”
Go HERE to see an interesting discussion about form and content. One of my responses is below.
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 5
Please plan to join us for our week 5 webcast tomorrow (Wednesday, October 10) at 5 PM Philadelphia time. Tomorrow morning I will send the usual guidelines and will describe options for participating. Meantime,...
ModPo update for Monday of week 5
Welcome, truly, to ModPo 2018 week 5! Below I’ve copied one of the four headnotes to the main week 5 syllabus—on “chapter 4” (the second of week 5’s four parts), the Harlem Renaissance. And...
Coming soon: new ModPoPLUS video on Hugh MacDiarmid
Today we recorded a new two-part video discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid’s modernist epic poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, which was written in “braid Scots verse.” We were joined by Scottish poet Christie...
new poems & videos in ModPoPLUS for week 5
Here, below, are a number of poems and videos recently added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 5: watch teachers discuss Lechlitner’s “Lines for an Abortionist’s Office”: LINK TO TRC VIDEO watch discussion of...
